Re: GNU/Linux Dictionaries

(Followup-to ignored.)

In comp.os.linux.misc, Farley Flud  <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

For a dictionary/thesaurus I am currently using dictd:
 
https://github.com/cheusov/dictd
 
The actual word data comes from several of the sources that
are listed here:
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT
 
I am very satisfied with these resources but I am also curious
if there are any other dictionaries available for GNU/Linux,
and I am only interested in local, not online, resources.

All the dictd dictionaries I know of are listed as sources at
dict.org : https://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict4

On my own server I have only a few installed because I don't find value
in most of them:

$ cat /var/lib/dictd/db.list
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database gcide
 {
  data  /usr/share/dictd/gcide.dict.dz
  index /usr/share/dictd/gcide.index
}
database wn
 {
  data  /usr/share/dictd/wn.dict.dz
  index /usr/share/dictd/wn.index
}
database moby-thesaurus
 {
  data  /usr/share/dictd/moby-thesaurus.dict.dz
  index /usr/share/dictd/moby-thesaurus.index
}
database devil
 {
  data  /usr/share/dictd/devil.dict.dz
  index /usr/share/dictd/devil.index
}
$

I am aware of StarDict but have never used it.
 
https://stardict-4.sourceforge.net/index_en.php
 
Can anyone offer recommendations?

It probably helps to tell people what you want out of a dictionary.
English word definitions? Something else?

I bet you can download wikitionary.org somehow, but I'm not sure what
tools exist to easily use the data.

Ah, here:
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/

And here:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Wiktionary-supported_software

Elijah
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should probably think about using local dumps